Episode 11, finds co-hosts Lanier and Lessie in an engaging discussion of the strategic, systematic erosion of civil liberties and civil rights for Black America’s and those who would support our just and righteous cause, through criminalizing Constitutionally protected liberties of freedom of speech and protest.  With America’s democracy in what can only be described as tatters, will the U.S. Supreme Court rule Tennessee's law in contradiction with the United States’ Constitution’s Bill of Rights or can citizens of Tennessee and other states kiss those liberties good-bye.

Our audience call to action is

Our call to action with this episode is self-care!  If necessary, seek help from a professional who can and will validate the realness of what you’re feeling and experiencing, even if not directly on the front lines but vicariously!  A lot is being thrown at Black folk to the point it can have the effect of desensitizing us. To the protestors who are on the front lines, we are grateful.  Thank you. To those of us not out in the protests, please use your gifts, talents and abilities for the collective good and uplift of Blacks as we press on for justice, equality and equity in all areas of political and socioeconomic spheres!

Co-host Book Suggestions

Leviathan Or the Matter Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism  by Allissa V. Richardson

Additional links

NY times article: BLM may be the largest movement in the US History

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-

crowd-size.html

Link from Clip played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH33NX29b4I

Legislatures crack down on protestors:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/12/tennessee-passes-law-targeting-protesters-makes-capitol-camping-felony/3354879001/

constitution act:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/#:~:text=Congress%20shall%20make%20no%20law,for%20a%20redress%20of%20grievances

https://blavity.com/why-19-black-families-purchased-9671-acres-of-land-in-the-midst-of-protests-and-a-pandemic?category1=opinion&category2=news

Thanks also to David L Branch II a/k/a Lil Sourstraw for the beat “Toronto.”
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